I think that reporting on assassination attempts of the US president is probably suppressed.

in bc we have two tier pricing, the first X kilowatthours per month is I think 0.08CAD (~0.05USD), the second is 0.15CAD (~0.11USD)

Our power mostly comes from hydroelectric dams, but we wheel and deal it interprovincially so within the course of a day we’ll spend some time importing and some time exporting which gives us lower rates, and lets other places run more efficiently (ie Fewer gas turbines)

Headline and article mischaracterize the report’s findings.

The country added nearly 1.3 million people last year — a 3.2 per cent increase — while the economy grew by just 1.1 per cent in the same time period. That means more people taking slices out of an economic pie that hasn’t grown much bigger.

Right, but if we’re talking about GDP per capita growth, we should probably subtract retirees from the population number, and not count new residents that don’t have the right to work. Also, one year data is probably not very valuable because I think the we’re only just now reaching a post-pandemic equilibrium in terms of retirement/ migration flows. Probably a lot better to look at 10 year numbers.

The news isn’t all bad. Data shows real weekly earnings — a person’s take home pay — has actually increased in Canada, even when accounting for inflation. The household savings rate is also up.

So it’s not that we’re getting poorer, it’s that we’re not getting richer as quickly?

This is toxic ‘keeping up with the Joneses’.

We should focus on equity and sustainability, not growth for growth’s sake.

THPS 1+2 (the HD remake) is excellent but they decided not to do a THPS3+4 remake. Presumably due to low numbers. BUT online is broken. What I mean by broken is that you basically can’t log in to the server if your console is connected to the internet through a router. As far as I know Activision never acknowledged that failure. Do you think this problem might have hurt sales/microtransaction revenue?

I’ve never heard anyone with first hand experience complain about living in North Korea. They literally can’t complain.

I agree that the government should govern not politick, but isn’t it a bit naive to think you can make lasting change without politicking?

I wonder if it’s useful to look at “governing”, and “politicking” as either end of a spectrum with “leading” as the sweet spot.

Just my two cents though.

Have they looked at masers? Basically rf lasers.i think they’re much cheaper than lasers and could be steered at drones but would only need enough power to interfere with guidance/ controls

What about a shotgun shell but each pellet is crimped around the midpoint of a bundle of carbon fibers

It’s because of the rail labour dispute. The NDP can’t/won’t be party to cutting down unions.

It was about one day before that for me. I was like

oh that’s so cool, he’s got amazing engineers working to repurpose a pressure vessel from SpaceX to act as a rescue pod to save those kids.

Then actual cave divers were like:

any cave diver will tell you that this will never work

What kind of cave diving rescue plan doesn’t talk to any cave divers before drawing any attention to itself? The kind designed solely to draw attention and stroke ego. He tried to make those boys’ struggles about himself because he thinks he’s the most capable man alive.

Mate it’s a meme from 17 years ago, not 2017. It’s from 2007.

It’s the

… like such as the Iraq…

Clip right?

Anybody else feel like it’s pretty sexist to liken the anticipated performance of the vice president of the USA to a teen beauty pageant contestant?

It’s really telling that Chinese EVs (like imported Teslas) were basically considered fine until the prospect of them being affordable to the middle class arose. That’s when we started hearing about labour abuses and fires that only happen with * cheap Chinese* batteries.

It’s not like Tesla has a stellar reputation for quality and reliability. They started powerwall as a way to offload bad/ prematurely failing batteries. Don’t get me wrong, powerwall is a good idea. But pretending like BYD is going to have terrible batteries and that’s why we need tariffs is bad.

China has labour and human rights abuses (eg genocide of Uyghers in Xinjiang [cultural genocide is still genocide]). Imo Canada is doing a better job of reconciling with its history/present of cultural genocide than China is. Canada’s TFW program probably results in lots of horrible abuses that we don’t hear about, but i think this program may be on its way out too. These issues don’t only apply to EVs though.

The only things that’re EV specific are lithium batteries and automotive manufacturing.

EV tariffs are protectionism: We want to protect domestic automotive (and para-automotive) manufacturing capabilities, and our investments in EVs/green tech.

I don’t think 100% tariffs can be justified on EVs alone.

“Mr. Poilievre, should Canada deem rail freight an essential service and nationalize the railways?”

That’s exactly what seems to be happening

My understanding is that the union and the rail companies are pretty far apart in negotiations. The workers/ union were happy to keep working while negotiations progressed, but the rail companies didn’t want to negotiate anymore and wanted to go to binding arbitration.

Rail companies locked out the workers.

Government says “you can’t do that you have to go to binding arbitration”.

Rail companies get an absolute win. It’s so fucked.

If they know these people are active criminals they will have no problem citing just cause for arrest and search.

I live in Canada, our gun rules are different than the USA. This week in my city some charges against a dangerous criminal were dropped because the police had a “flagrant disregard for charter rights” (according to the judge) (oir charter rights are similar to American civil rights)

They searched him improperly, and found a loaded, illegal gun. Charges dismissed. If they had handled it properly they could have made the charges stick. What a waste of everyone’s time. Police didn’t respect his rights because they don’t respect my rights.

The water in my community has poison added to it by my local government. It’s a poison so heinous its usage is banned in war. It affects the clarity and taste of the water. No matter how many letters I write they are totally unwilling to stop chlorinating the water. It’s outrageous!

Is there a way to set up patreon for any ad free website I browse?

Could my browser have some sort of cryptographically signed cookie that would let ad-free websites deduct 1-5 cents from my browsing account?

Website could check for the cookie before loading the ads?

Has this been tried?

I think the author intended it to mean “let’s fucking go”

But LFG is how my brain will always read it. (WoW BC thru WOTLK)

Isn’t BYD the world’s #1 or #2 battery company?

They ought to respect consumer protections and warranty laws but I don’t think dismissal of their batteries outright makes sense.